H.B. Ida Quotes

The way to right wrongs is to turn the light of truth upon them.

One had better die fighting against injustice than die like a dog or a rat in a trap.

The people must know before they can act, and there is no educator to compare with the press.

There must always be a remedy for wrong and injustice if we only know how to find it.

Virtue knows no color line.

Those who commit the murders write the reports.

I am only a mouthpiece through which to tell the story of lynching and I have told it so often that I know it by heart. I do not have to embellish; it makes its own way.

A Winchester rifle should have a place of honor in every black home.

The appeal to the white man's pocket has ever been more effectual than all the appeals ever made to his conscience.

The appetite grows for what it feeds on.

Imagination is the only key to the future. Without it none exists - with it all things are possible.

It is extremely rough to follow through with my goals, but I felt a responsibility to show the world what the African Americans are facing through this rough patch.

Somebody must show that the Afro-American race is more sinned against than sinning, and it seems to have fallen upon me to do so.

Brave men do not gather by thousands to torture and murder a single individual, so gagged and bound he cannot make even feeble resistance or defense.

Strength that has effort in it is not what you need; you need the strength that is the result of ease.

we were raising our standard of living at the expense of our standard of character.

The doors of churches, hotels, concert halls and reading rooms are alike closed against the Negro as a man, but every place is open to him as a servant.

What becomes a crime deserving capital punishment when the tables are turned is a matter of small moment when the negro woman is the accusing party.

It's not how deep you go, it's how you go deep.

When the Body Gets working appropriately, the force of Gravity can flow through, then spontaneously, the body heals itself

The nineteenth century lynching mob cuts off ears, toes, and fingers, strips off flesh, and distributes portions of the body as souvenirs among the crowd.

The white man’s victory soon became complete by fraud, violence, intimidation and murder.

Often I pretended to a cameraman to know less than I did. That way I got more cooperation.

The body is solid material wrapped around the breath

An effective human being is a whole that is greater than the sum of its parts.

The only reason I am glad I am a woman is because I will not have to marry one.

[John D. Rockefeller] didn't care about anyone he did anything just to be rich and be the only company standing without any competition. He destroyed anyone else.

The mob spirit has grown with the increasing intelligence of the Afro-American.

Form and function are a unity, two sides of one coin. In order to enhance function, appropriate form must exist or be created.

You cant get beyond the body unless you free the body itself.

The quest of the truth had been born in me - the most tragic and incomplete, as well as the most essential, of man's quests.

Our country's national crime is lynching. It is not the creature of an hour, the sudden outburst of uncontrolled fury, or the unspeakable brutality of an insane mob.

Go around the problem; get the system sufficiently resilient so that it is able to change, and it will change, It doesn't have to be forced. It's that forcing that you have to avoid at all costs.

The wall is silence, the grass is sleep, Tall trees of peace their vigil keep, And the Fairy of Dreams with moth-wings furled. Plays soft on her flute to the drowsy world.

God didn't come down and tell me; I had to find it out through many years of experience. The work came first; the inspiration came later.

The city of Memphis has demonstrated that neither character nor standing avails the Negro if he dares to protect himself against the white man or become his rival.

A popular disturbance never remains long in the full control of those who start it.

It's always a revolution, you know, when things occur of which you have never happened to hear!

I honestly believe I am the only woman in the United States who ever traveled throughout the country with a nursing baby to make political speeches.

A mind truly cultivated never feels that the intellectual process is complete until it can reproduce in some media the thing which it has absorbed.

The South resented giving the Afro-American his freedom, the ballot box and the Civil Rights Law.

The only times an Afro-American who was assaulted got away has been when he had a gun and used it in self-defense.

Lynching is color line murder.

The Afro-American is not a bestial race.

The negro has suffered far more from the commission of this crime against the women of his race by white men than the white race has ever suffered through his crimes.

No nation, savage or civilized, save only the United States of America, has confessed its inability to protect its women save by hanging, shooting, and burning alleged offenders

There is nothing we can do about the lynching now, as we are out-numbered and without arms.

The South is brutalized to a degree not realized by its own inhabitants, and the very foundation of government, law and order, are imperilled.

A mind which really lays hold of a subject is not easily detached from it.

Keeping a feminine approach is vital - men hate bossy females.